The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-20
INDIANA DEMOCRATS.
How Our Neichbors in Michigan View the
Late Movements of the Party.

How Our Neighbors in Michigan View tho
Late Movements of the Party.
Detroit Tribune.
Artemus Ward once ventured the opinion that
it would have been more than $40 in the old
mans pocket if jeff Davis had never been born.
The Indiana Democrats laboring under an
analogous misfortune. A jury by strictly par
tisar vote recently refused to convict certain
leading Democratic politicians of forging tally
sheets in furtherance of a scheme to make GER
tain of the election of a Democratic judge of
very doubtful antecedents and surroundings.
And now the party is beginning to realize that
il would have been thousands of votes in their
favor had the Democrats on that jury rendered
a verdict in accordance with the facts and their
oaths.
The evidence which the jury called to
pass has all been published. The public can
therefore render verdict just intelligently
as the jury. And that judgment is far different
from the opinion of the six or seven Democrats
who were unable to find sufficient testimony to
convict. The proof is so convincing that re-
spectacle minority of the Democrats open in
the expressions of their disgust, and this dissat-
isfacton is steadily spreading.
The party papers, on the other hand, have de-
Tended the forgers from the start and appauded
the jurors who refused to convict So have the
leading party leaders. And now they at
their wits end to know what to do. To go ahead
is only stir up more open reputation of the
outrage and crime; to own up to the facts is to
confess themselves liars and in partnership with
forgers. AS last desperate resort they have
fallen upon the novel defense of asserting that
Republicans in times past were guilty of like
crimes. This virtually admits the truth Of all
that has been said while affordng no possible
justification for these election frauds.
The matter is certain to be carried into next
years campaign. The Democrats will be made
familiar with their record and be compelled to
face it. minority of decent men among them
will repudiate the business and the party more
or less openly, and the result cannot fail to
have decisive effect upon the vote of the
State The Republicans are confident that
their recruits from the ranks of decent and
honest Democrats who will refuse to be made
partners with foreers will be sufficient to give
them the State Inscriptions party leaders and
organs have made their bed and will be COM
PEELED to lie in it.
There propably is not State in the Union
where Democratic politicians more defiant
of all morality and all decency than in Indiana.
It has been their custom to stick at nothing to
secure their ends. It will be remem bered that
only last fall when the Supreme Court of the
State rendered decision, involving a political
question, adverse to Democratic wishes and de-
mands, the Indianapolis Sentinel. the organ of
the party, headed article of bitter denuncia-
ton with this most extraordinary expression:
Damn their Cowardly Souls" AS If all that
the highest tribunal of the State existed for was
to register the edicts of lot of ward politicians.
There are encouraging signs going to show
that shameless prostitution of official trusts to
base and desperate partisan purposes not even
stopping at open crime. is slowly coming 20 an
end in Indiana. It is high time